Aldous Huxley

What is a Utopian Society? First, a Utopian society means “nowhere” an Ideal society or a perfect world. Many people in England and in other countries believed they could have a perfect world. It didn’t come close to an ideal society,in fact, it got a lot worse. Shakespeare believed in a “ perfect society” because he was really open- minded about things. Many people strongly disagrees with this because this caused many problems in the new world. According to “The Scarlet Letter “ by…

Discuss the interplay between how individuals perceive themselves and how they are perceived by others. In his film Gattaca Andrew Niccol explored this dichotomy of people’s thoughts of us and our thoughts on ourselves. We would like to pretend we do not care how others perceive us; however, we have all secretly yearned to fit in somewhere, be it at work, school or at social gatherings. The way in which we see ourselves is heavily influenced by other people’s perceptions of us. In the first…

Artificial Society in Brave New World The World State requires their society to be void of emotions like love and hatred, religion, art and science, along with the conditioning of minds and the predetermination of citizens’ lives and tools like soma and V.P.S to keep conflict at bay in order to maintain the “happiest society.” They are utterly fabricating the citizens’ lives, simply providing them with a predetermined life that they are confined to. The effort required to control life and…

Even though Huxley wrote Brave New World more than 70 years ago, this does not mean that the information in it is no longer relevant. If anything, since it was written so long ago it would make it more relevant. This would make it more relevant because he writes about a dystopian future and at this time period, we are living in the dystopian future that Huxley talks about. Using Huxley’s book, we can tell different flaws in our society that were predicted. Some of the topics mentioned in the…

Social Conditioning; Warning, We Have All Become Basic In this paper I will use Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World and Kirby Ferguson’s Everything Is A Remix, to argue that we are socially conditioned to like, think and believe certain things by our environment. And while that may be beneficial in certain circumstances, on a collective level it brings us down as individuals, and therefore as a society. We are resistant to change. We like comfort, and we can only be comfortable when…

"Community, Identity, and Stability”(Huxley 1), these words of Huxley's Brave New World perfectly describes the characteristics needed for an ideal society. However, this perception can change from one person to another. The Brave New World explores a ‘negative utopian civilization’ in which The natural processes of birth, emotions, and aging are prohibited and represent savagery in this world. It surrounds the idea of the advancement of subconscious conditioning, predetermining every aspect…

Through the use of Beatty’s speech in the science fiction novel “Fahrenheit 451”, Ray Bradbury solidifies his initial emotions towards society, referring to it as a wretched species whose self-interest; specifically, the urge to fill every part of its emotional spectrum in order to feel fulfilled and happy comes to it at a great cost, that cost being the progression of the species as a whole and the information gained from the development we achieve. As Beatty tells Montag “What's the point of…

As a tyrannical government is allowed to rule freely over the illiterate masses, technology became so advance in a way wherein work that should be done by people are being replaced by robots, virtual centers are being safe havens for the people who choose to refuse to live but rather exist in something that isn’t real and tangible. Raissa Claire U. Rivera’s “Virtual Center” is a unique but horrifying example of a society built in Class Division which showcased the poor versus the rich, and the…

Brave New World Symbolism Within Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World there's numerous symbols that allude to the actual world and concepts. Each part of the world is engineered in a way so that control and happiness are paramount. Everyone is happy doing their assigned tasks and beauty and learning anything outside of their field is shunned. Birthing tubes and hardcore drugs, the New World is a demonstration of what happens when one seeks a utopia. Soma, assembly line people, cognitive…

Brave New World: The negative effects of a utilitarian society Aldous Hayley’s Brave New World introduces us to a dystopian society where everyone adheres to a system out of their control. In this world state “everyone belongs to everyone else”. Happiness is found in drugs and sex, monogamy is unheard of and basic human emotion has been distorted into something unrecognizable. The people of this exhibit no protest; to them it is a perfect utopia where everyone is happy in their pre conditioned…